Primavera P6 Professional Advanced Rel. 8.3

This Primavera P6 Advanced Rel 8.3 training gives you hands-on experience with advanced resource management and project management in P6, Primavera's Web-based project management application. Topics include: creating resource teams and role teams, high-level resource planning, resource leveling, viewing and analyzing portfolio performance, assessing return on investment, capacity planning and waterline analysis, and earned value analysis

Course Objectives

By the end of the course participant will be able to:

• Use advanced scheduling techniques
• Analyze portfolio performance
• Manage multiple projects
• Create resource teams
• Use high-level resource planning
• View portfolio performance
• Staff resource requests
• Create a portfolio
• Use resource leveling

Who Should Attend?

• Project Manager
• End Users
• Business Analysts
• Functional
• Implementer

Course Outline

Module (01) Creating Resource Teams and Role Teams
1.1  View the Resource Team Summary portlet.
1.2  View the Open Requests for Resources portlet.

Module (02) Viewing Portfolio Performance
2.1  Review performance thresholds.
2.2  Use earned value analysis.

Module (03) Viewing Portfolio Information
3.1  View return on investment data.
3.2  View data in the Gantt chart.

Module (04) Analyzing Portfolios
4.1     Create a portfolio view.
4.2     View waterline analysis.
4.3     Create a scenario.
4.4     View the Capacity Planning page.

Module (05) High-Level Resource Planning
5.1     Assign resources and roles.
5.2     Using Committed and Life of Project assignments.

Module (06) Managing Allocation
6.1  Using the Resource Usage tab to analyze units and costs.
6.2  Grouping data on the Assignments page.

Module (07) Staffing Resource Requests
7.1  Use resource search.

Module (08) Resource Leveling
8.1  Set leveling options.
8.2  Assign leveling priorities.

Module (09) Advanced Scheduling
9.1  Multiple float paths.
9.2  Scheduling logic options.

Course Methodology

A variety of methodologies will be used during the course that includes:

• (30%) Based on Case Studies
• (30%) Techniques
• (30%) Role Play
• (10%) Concepts
• Pre-test and Post-test
• Variety of Learning Methods
• Lectures
• Case Studies and Self Questionaires
• Group Work
• Discussion
• Presentation

Course Fees

This rate includes participant’s manual, Hand-Outs, buffet lunch, coffee/tea on arrival, morning & afternoon of each day.

Course Timings

Daily Course Timings
08:00 - 08:20       Morning Coffee / Tea
08:20 - 10:00       First Session
10:00 - 10:20       Coffee / Tea / Snacks
10:20 - 12:20       Second Session
12:20 - 13:30       Lunch Break & Prayer Break
13:30 - 15:00       Last Session